11 year old Ben??? NO WAY

OK well it happened and I didn't even cry (on the outside).  Benjamin went ahead and turned 11 despite all of my requests to stay 10 forever.  He wakes up, walks into my bedroom and plops down on the bed just waiting for me to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY, but all I could do is just look at him and smile.  Seems like just yesterday that he was born.

Ben was the kind of baby everyone wants.  I admit to taking him to the doctor on occasion insisting that there was something wrong with him because he didn't cry.  I thought maybe he was deaf.  I could vacuum under his crib and he would just keep sleeping.   He ate everything under the sun, laid down with out crying, took two naps a day and slept all night long.  Perfect.    He began toddling around and we contemplated helmets as he tried to balance his head (slightly out of proportion to the rest of his body to say the least).

 He would sit in baskets and crunch on ice at nanny's house and snuggle up to Simon (his future best buddy in history).  His favorite shows were Barney and bear in the Big Blue House and he loved dancing around the living room with Bailey.  His favorite toy?   HOT WHEELS.   Not to crash into each other like other kids.......just to line up in perfect bumper to bumper order all around the house by color.   

So these are the things I thought of looking at him and David says over my shoulder "Happy Birthday buddy!" because I couldn't get it out without becoming a blubbering idiot.  My Bennie turned 11 anyway. So since I have no control over it I just go with it.  Looking forward to the man he will be one day holding on to the baby he will always be in my heart.  I watch him grow so fast, set new goals, fit right in with kids two years older at school, try new things, and I am just so full.  What a great kid!  What a great God I have to give me Ben.  I am so thankful.

A little side story because I told Ben I had to blog on it......We went to the park in Derby last night so Ben could go for his Language Arts class.  On the way there he and his friend Delaney (She is Ben's BFF as school) were shopping at the gas station.  She is standing there and pointing saying "ooo I love those and these are my favorite, you pick...I have to go to the bathroom."  Ben thinks she is gone and laughs saying, "This girl is gonna make me broke!"  Over his should she says "I heard that Ben!"  I thought I might die laughing I had to leave the store.